Hi all.
New player, probably a relatively 'newbie' question!
I have decided, as I live next to London City airport, to base an airline there. As the majority of planes that fly in and out are E190s, I decided to do some Aircraft Type Evaluations to check the 'available seats' load.
What I was confused about is this: Any short-haul flight to Europe (i.e Belfast, Nice, Zurich, Berlin, Milan, Glasgow etc) shows a full load of available seats (102) on the outbound flight from LCY to these airports, but, on every flight on the way back, the load halves (48) with no seemingly discernible differences to any other statistic (and of course, I have flown full E190 flights back into LCY myself).
To compare, Bombardier C300 does not changes it's 'available seats' on either it's flight in or out of the airport.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and answers.